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Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Right now, all over the world, people are using energy. As we drive our cars, work on our computers,...

Explores the Korean language from both a syntactic and semantic perspective, combining mainstream ideas from minimalist syntax and formal semantics.Author: Eunhee LeeISBN-10: 1108404685ISBN-13: 9781108404686Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2021Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Language teachers have long been aware of the devastating effect of learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate spoken or written communication. This volume addresses how to raise learner awareness of pragmatic gaffes through research-based, field-tested activities, such as composing email requests, giving advice, making...

These charming stories about Tom's attempts to build a fort and perform a magic trick will entertain young children as they practice their decoding skills. Author: Jenny JinksISBN-10: 1728420458ISBN-13: 9781728420455Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2021Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.80w x 0.20d

These charming stories about Tom's attempts to build a fort and perform a magic trick will entertain young children as they practice their decoding skills. Author: Jenny JinksISBN-10: 1728417279ISBN-13: 9781728417271Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Language: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2021Pages: 32Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.30h x 6.30w x 0.30d

'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it...

Sealaska Heritage Institute's Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the product of years of documentation of the Haida language with assistance from fluent Elders. It's a must-have resource for language learners and for people who are interested in learning more about the Haida culture. The...

If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Deep Revision covers topics such as revision as a natural process, learning to revise by editing other people's writing, changing media to revise, and revising nonfiction with fiction techniques....

Do you have a minute? That's how quickly this book will help you improve your students' reading skills. Designed to be read on the run and make every minute count in your classroom, Reading Reminders features Jim Burke's one hundred best techniques for teaching...

A classic since its first edition in 1966, Modern American Usage has been called a book that "every literate American ought to read." Now fully revised and brought up-to-date, this one-volume course in good writing brims with helpful answers--large and small--for readers who want...

A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards.- Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity.- Companion comprehension questions require...

What has been done in recent times in the fields of archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, and comparative oral literature, not to mention literary criticism itself, has put the whole Homeric problem in so new a light that now above all else the interested reader...

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H....

Walt Disney is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language (ESL)...

When It Comes to Reading, Writers Have an Advantage We know that writing skills reinforce reading skills, but what's the best way to capitalize on this relationship? By flipping the traditional "reading lesson first, writing lesson second" sequence, Colleen Cruz helps you make the...

This reference provides crossword puzzlers with an aid to successful crossword completion. Over 100,000 potential solutions include technical terms, place names, and compound expressions. Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to...

Highlight the assets of English Learners in your classroom Students do better in school when their voices are heard. For English Learners, that means not only supporting their growing language proficiency, but also empowering them to share their linguistic and cultural identities. This practical...

Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the 'Comfort Women: The Collective Memory of Sexual Slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military in Japan over the past seventy-five years. Euphemistically known as the "comfort women," tens...

The Virgin Islands Dictionary is a collection of words and phrases used frequently, naturally and enjoyably by the people who call the Virgin Islands home. Don't get me wrong, most Virgin Islanders speak English well. A growing number speak English and Spanish making that...

Finally, a Writing Series that Engages Boys If your students love How to Train your Dragon, they will love this writing book Students will create medieval characters, choose their trades and develop a story all while learning about the Middle Ages. Will they be...

The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At...

Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance. In categorising the various ways in which De Niro works...

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.Author: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN-10: 0544268571ISBN-13: 9780544268579Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2013Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 0.30d

"Writing With Mentors is one of the best books I've read on harnessing the power of mentor texts to spur authentic student writing." --Kelly Gallagher, author of Write Like This "Writing With Mentors has transformed the way I think about using exemplar pieces." --Christopher...

Do It Yourself Hebrew and Greek is designed for the serious Bible student who wants to discover as accurately as possible what the Bible meant in its original languages but who is not in a position to master those languages. This manual introduces the...

This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and...

A wordless retelling of the classic story, in which farmer, his family and friends try to pull up an enormous turnip.Author: Monica HughesISBN-10: 0007186444ISBN-13: 9780007186440Publisher: HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 7.50w x 0.20d

Teaching listening means more than just giving students listening activities and checking for understanding--it means teaching them how to listen. Listening in the Classroom takes promising research findings and theory and turns them into practical teaching ideas that help develop listening proficiency.Author: Marnie Reed,...

ISBN-10: 1408523523ISBN-13: 9781408523520Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 4.70h x 7.10w x 0.50d

Michael Winkler never had any plans to become an artist. On a rainy Seattle night in December of 1980, he discovered, by accident, that there are inexplicably meaningful patterns encoded in the signs for words. The relationship between the meaning of words and the...

Oxford Learner's Pocket Grammar is a genuinely pocket-sized reference book that is ideal for revision. It's easy for students to take with them - on the bus, on the train, to school. If they have a few minutes to spare they can revise a...

Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry. This volume showcases women's resistance to the norms of games culture, as well as women's play and creative practices...

The Ultimate Guide to Learning Italian ASAP! You know how to order your favorite "ravioli" or "vino"--but that can only get you so far. If you are planning to travel to an Italian-speaking country or want a jumpstart on on how to "parlare" for...

The purpose of this textbook is to introduce Bible students and translators to the basic compositional structure and literary style of Hebrew poetry, especially the lyric-liturgical poetry found in the Book of Psalms. Wendland follows a "discourse analysis" approach--examining different aspects of the poetic...

This unique book is arranged in three columns: English, Zulu, and how to pronounce the Zulu words phonetically. This dictionary and phrasebook will serve as a helpful working tool in the classroom, at home, or for businesses and tourists to South Africa. The more...

English to Pashto Dictionary with English Phonetics.Author: Amir KhanISBN-10: 1484117395ISBN-13: 9781484117392Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2013Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.83d

Learning verb conjugations and dealing with irregular verbs in the Spanish language is a serious challenge for many English speakers. Dr. Juan M. Gonz疝ez, an assistant professor of Spanish at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and Dr. Dan Bishop have developed a unique...

This resource offers practical methods for helping ELLs succeed in reading, with strategies to increase fluency and comprehension, teach vocabulary and text structure, and more.Author: Thomas S. C. FarrellISBN-10: 1412957354ISBN-13: 9781412957359Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2008Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d

"Irreverent." "Funny." "Essential." Read this book before you publish your book.You just wrote your first book. And there you are. Stark naked. Vulnerable. Wondering what to do next to get your masterpiece published.This is the one book you need to read and follow if...

And Justice for ELs is a resource every school leader must read right away--for that matter, keep within arm's reach because you're certain to refer to it constantly. Ayanna Cooper, a former U.S. Department of State English Language Specialist, has "been there, done that"...

This series of four books has been designed to help candidates of the various English Language Examinations in use today (ECCE, ECPE, FCE, CAE, CPE, IELTS, TOEIC) produce better essays. All these examinations require the candidate to write a text at a proficient level...

Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG...

In 1989, the first complete, restored text of revivalist Charles Finney's memoirs was published by Zondervan. Until then, all editions had reflected editorial liberties introduced in the first 19th-century publication, edited after Finney's death. The restored text--the culmination of over ten years of research...

Asante Twi is the most widely spoken of the dialects of the Akan language, and Akan is spoken by about forty four percent of Ghana's population as a first language. It is also used as a second language by many others. The author, Professor...

Terry Fox is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or...

ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons."I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power or possessions." Plutarch "To be ignorant of the lives of the...

However, it became apparent shortly after the establishing of the Center that not only were all methods of legal semiotics not Peircean in origin, but were in their respective foundational assumptions not likely to be compatible with Peirce's semiotics without some radical, transforming development...

Trini Talk - A Dictionary of Words and Proverbs of Trinidad & Tobago. This is the second edition of an indigenous collection by author Rhona S. Baptiste. It has been expanded to include new contributions to the vernacular since its first publication in 1994....

Plato's "Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation...

I've written this book to give you a sound engineer's perspective on your career as a voiceover talent. In this book I've tried to provide you with basic information about audio and equipment that is taught in recording schools. Hopefully, this information will provide...